Highest temp a ball python can handle before it is burned?

[jdouglas]

I know 92 is ideal for the hot spot.

Lets just say it somehow manages to get up to around 95 would this hurt the snake?

I am asking because I reset both my acu-rites and my flukers about 48 hours ago. And my hot spot temps have varied between 89-93.5 and my cool side temps have varied between 78-82. This has been over the last 48 hours. I have dropped the temps in the room down to 65degrees and increased them to 78 degrees during this 48 hour test period to determine the temp ranges to determine if its a safe environment.

Also will this 4 degree variation in temps cause problems with the snake?
I keep the temps in the room stable around 72-74 normally. I use a window unit set to around 74(so it doesn't cut on until the temps are over this). And I keep a electric room heater that is set to 71(so it only cuts on if it drops below this).

I keep it around these temps because its my computer room and it can get quite warm if I don't have a window unit. And at nights it can get cold so I use the room heater.

Upstairs rooms are a pain to keep right only useing Central air/heat

[Skittles1101]

I think 95 long term is definitely not good, but 95 short term won't make a huge difference. I'd probably say anything over 100 degrees has the potential to cause a burn.

[cinderbird]

i think 95 is perfectly reasonable as long as they have a proper gradient to thermoregulate properly. I'd even consider 96 as a hot spot, usually during the winter when the ambient temps are lower.

i wouldn't go over 100 at all. Temps over 100 are the ones i've seen cause burns. It's usually unregulated heat mats that can get 110+ degrees, up to 140!!!!! that end up harming your snake.

[jdouglas]

It would certainly be short term. I just could not find anything on this.

I am using a thermostat and was just worried about a temperature spike caused by unknown reasons! And just wondered how hot it could handle.

At the moment I have not seen the 93.5 on the thermometer, it happened today while I was away at work. I shut off the window unit and set the heater to heat to 78 so it kept it at 78. Even when I came home it was around 92.6 and the room temp was 78. But I checked the max temp it reached and it said 93.5.

[AGoldReptiles]

95 is fine. I would not let it get over 100. The more important thing is for them to be able to get cool when approaching those hot side temps. These animals are experts at thermoregulation if you give them the options.

[jdouglas]

Awesome now what is the lowest that the cool side should reach? As long as the warm side is around 90-94?

[AGoldReptiles]

I target a 75 degree ambient temp in my room. Any lower and you risk RI's.

[jdouglas]

Great so 78 is safe =D

I am running a CHE along with the Heating pad so its actually keeping around an 80 degree ambient temp in the tank. It is seeing around 78 at times on the furthest wall on the cool side.

[kitedemon]

They can handle 100ºF (VPI 'ball pythons ref.) for short periods as long as they don't have a meal in the belly. The first issue isn't burns but they simply cannot digest food if it is too hot. Burns happen after the digestive system shuts down. My hands after I have been working hard often reads 101-2 Rats body temps are 99-101 it is unlikely that the normal body temp of a prey item is going to burn the predator.

100º won't burn a snake but it will stop eating and digesting food items.

[cinderbird]

100º won't burn a snake but it will stop eating and digesting food items.

Do you have a source for this information?